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Who's surprised?
Foxman pulled the exact same sort of crap recently while aiding and abetting the Turkish government in their ongoing quest to deny the truth of the Armenian Genocide. Even after facing astonishing levels of anger from the American progressive Jewish community and a movement against the ADL's "No Place For Hate" campaign, Foxman is still dragging his heels.
He now admits reluctantly that the Armenian genocide was "tantamount to genocide" (emphasis added); I don't know why he's so resistant to actually calling it genocide. But he's also still lobbying the US Congress to stop passage of two bills recognizing the Genocide. Says it's an issue that should be left to the Armenian survivors and the Turks to discuss, along with historians. Government apparently has no place in the recognition of genocide - unless it's the Holocaust, of course!
(It says something that George W. Bush is also strongly opposing those bills. War criminals stick together, I guess.)
"There's no business like Shoah business" wasn't coined to describe Foxman, but it should have been.
